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The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
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To view past events, check out our Event History page.
The Cinema Studies Department regularly hosts events that include lectures, screenings, and discussions, including our Wednesday Night Series, which is open to the public.
Join our Cinema Studies announcements listserv to receive emails about upcoming film-related events within and outside the department!
To view past events, check out our Event History page.
Joel Schlemowitz provides a brief history of the magic lantern while demonstrating its unique attributes: animated slip-slides, dissolving views, and gear-work mechanical lantern slides.
Drawing on his recently published book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977 (Univ. of California Press 2018), Joshua Glick will discuss how the city emerged as a hub for nonfiction media, one in which documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past.
Christopher Harris’ films and video installations read African American historiography through the poetics and aesthetics of experimental cinema. His work employs manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged reenactments of archival artifacts, and interrogations of documentary conventions. Screening includes Halimuhfack (2016), Reckless Eyeballing (2004) and this latest work still/here (2018).
The 9th Annual Experimental Lecture, presented by the Department of Cinema Studies and Undergraduate Film & TV. Featuring a rare 16mm screening of Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth.
Hosted by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (Cinema Studies, NYU), this series foregrounds intimate queer worlds that often get eclipsed in narratives of migration and diaspora.
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) M.A. Program will host an in-person and virtual information session for prospective students on Tuesday, October 9, 6:00pm to 7:15pm EDT.
A talk by Carol Stabile (Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Oregon; Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Oregon). Co-sponsored by NYU Liberal Studies.
This event suggests paying a particular attention to the ethnographic side of Baltic poetic documentaries thinking about how the filmmakers approached subjects of their films and how the poetic mode allowed them to bring national themes into their works. Screening of selected short documentaries followed by panel discussion with Riho Västrik (University of Tallinn), Sally Berger (Center for Media, Culture and History, NYU) and Pacho Velez (New School University), moderated by Lukas Brasiskis (Cinema Studies, NYU).
Dan Callahan, the author of The Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960, takes us through the evolution of acting for the camera: from Lillian Gish in the silent era to John Barrymore and Bette Davis in the sound era.
Come meet the Canine Community of Cinema Studies featuring an all-star line up including Iris, June, Roz, Suzy, and Sondra, as well as other special guests.
New York City—save your personal archives! Home Movie Weekend 2018 will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image.
New York City—save your personal archives! Home Movie Weekend 2018 will take place at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Screening followed by Q&A with director moderated Professor Zhang Zhen 张真 (Cinema Studies, NYU). Presented by Parallax Films and Fourth Wall Cinema. Co-sponsored by the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Department of Cinema Studies.
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) M.A. Program will host an in-person and virtual information session for prospective students on Monday, October 22, 6:00pm to 7:15pm EDT.
Filmmaker Eva Stefani returns to NYU to show a selection of short- and medium-length films, spanning over 20 years, exploring womanhood and the female body.
Screening and discussion with filmmakers, Konstantinos Kambouroglu and Heather Greer. Moderated by Professor Toby Lee (Cinema Studies)
Hosted by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (Cinema Studies, NYU), this series foregrounds intimate queer worlds that often get eclipsed in narratives of migration and diaspora.
Since the 1990s, Wen Hui, China’s leading independent dancer, choreographer, performance artist and filmmaker, has been exploring the body as archive and medium for the remembering and recovery of personal and collective history, especially women’s history.
Screening offered in conjunction with "NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960," on view at NYU's Grey Art Gallery and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, September 6-December 8, 2018.
RSVP by Friday, November 9 to kcs1@nyu.edu
Annette Michelson Memorial Service, Saturday, November 17, 2018.
Hosted by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (Cinema Studies, NYU), this series foregrounds intimate queer worlds that often get eclipsed in narratives of migration and diaspora.
Hosted by the Asian Film and Media Initiative (Cinema Studies, NYU), this series foregrounds intimate queer worlds that often get eclipsed in narratives of migration and diaspora.
Filmmakers and sound artists Stephanie Spray, Joshua Bonnetta, and Ernst Karel will present on practices of audio capture, strategies of sound mixing and collage, and the ethics of combining image and sound in non-fiction media works. In conversation with Lukas Brasiskis and Leo Goldsmith (Cinema Studies, NYU).
Screening introduced by professor Robert Stam (Cinema Studies, NYU) and Débora Butruce (Ph.D candidate, University of São Paulo, Brazil/Visiting Scholar, MIAP, NYU), followed by a discussion between her, who worked in this restoration project, and Fabio Andrade (Ph.D student, Cinema Studies, NYU).